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Firm told: 'Get a new manager'
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A Humberside company has 10St its Operator's Licence
for four weeks after its transport manager operated Its one artic with a false registration plate on the semitrailer. North Eastern Deputy Traffic Commissioner Mark Hinchliffe concluded that Peter Hutchinson, transport manager of SRI (South Cave), was no longer of good repute.
He directed that if a new transport manager was not In place by the end of the four-week period the licence suspension would continue until one was appointed.
The sole director of the company is Hutchinson's wife Sally. Hutchinson previously held his own licence but that was revoked after he was declared bankrupt in 1988.
The BIC was told that Lothian and Borders police had reported that a tractor bearing the number plate 1(161 FKW had been photographed by speed enforcement cameras six times between the end of May 2000 and February 2001. However, Its trailer was displaying a registration plate 1(181 FKW and as a result no prosecution could be brought.
When the vehicle was stopped in June 2001 it was being driven by Hutchinson. The cab was searched and the false registration plate was found under the bunk mattress.
The company could not produce tachograph charts for the dates covering apparent speeding offences. saying that they had been lost when the vehicle was stolen. However, the charts for July and August 2001 revealed a number of hours offences for which Hutchinson was given a conditional discharge for two years.
Hutchinson and his wife said neither of them had noticed the error in the number plate.
Neither could explain why police could not find the charts when the cab was searched in June 2001.
The DTC said: It is impossible to believe that for month after month the inaccuracy of the number plate was not observed." Revoking Peter Hutchinson's HGV driving licence, and disqualifying him from holding a licence for six months, the DIG concluded that if he had been prosecuted for the speeding he would very probably have been disqualified from driving any sort of vehicle for at least six months.